# fido
## English
### Etymology

An acronym of the words freaks, irregulars, defects, oddities, from the 1960s.

### Noun

fido (plural fidos)
* (numismatics) A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* I'd of, foid

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin fidēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfido]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ido
* Hyphenation: fi‧do

### Noun

fido (uncountable, accusative fidon)
* faith, trust

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.do/
* Rhymes: -ido
* Hyphenation: fì‧do

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fīdus (“loyal”).

#### Adjective

fido (feminine fida, masculine plural fidi, feminine plural fide)
* faithful, loyal

##### Related terms

* fede
* fidare
* fiducia

### Etymology 2

Deverbal from fidare (“trust”) +‎ -o.

#### Noun

fido m (plural fidi)
* (banking) a credit concession

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fido
* first-person singular present indicative of fidare

### Further reading

* fido in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* fido in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* fìdo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfiː.doː/, [ˈfiːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfi.do/, [ˈfiːd̪o]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *feiðō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti (“to trust”), from the root *bʰeydʰ-.
Cognate to fidēs (“faith”) and Proto-Germanic *bīdaną.

#### Verb

fīdō (present infinitive fīdere, perfect active fīsus sum); third conjugation, semi-deponent
* to trust, put confidence in
    Synonyms: confido, credo
    Antonyms: diffīdō, suspiciō
* to rely upon

##### Conjugation

Old forms:
* indicative future active: fīdēbō (This may hint to a second conjugation variation.)

##### Derived terms

* cōnfīdō
* diffīdō

##### Related terms

* fidēlis

##### Descendants

Reflexes of an assumed variant *fīdāre:
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: fidare
** Sicilian: fidari
*** → Maltese: fada
* North Italian:
** Friulian: fiâ
** Old Lombard: fiar
** Romansch: fidar, fider
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: fiar
** French: fier
** Gascon: hidar
** Occitan: fisar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: fiar
*** Galician: fiar
*** Portuguese: fiar
** Spanish: fiar

#### References

* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fīdare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 501

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

fīdō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fīdus

#### References

* “fido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria (ambiguous) historic truth: historiae, rerum fides (ambiguous) an acknowledged historical fact: res historiae fide comprobata (ambiguous) genuine historical truth: incorrupta rerum fides (ambiguous) to remain loyal: in fide manere (B. G. 7. 4. 5) (ambiguous) to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem (ambiguous) having exchanged pledges, promises: fide data et accepta (Sall. Iug. 81. 1) (ambiguous) to be bound by one's word; to be on one's honour: fide obstrictum teneri (Pis. 13. 29) (ambiguous) a thing finds credence, is credible: aliquid fidem habet (vid. also fides under sect. VII., History) (ambiguous) to promise an oath to..: iureiurando ac fide se obstringere, ut (ambiguous) credit and financial position: fides et ratio pecuniarum (ambiguous) credit is going down: fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) concidit (ambiguous) a man's credit begins to go down: fides aliquem deficere coepit (ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8) (ambiguous) credit is low throughout Italy: fides tota Italia est angusta

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin fīdus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfido/ [ˈfi.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -ido
* Syllabification: fi‧do

### Adjective

fido (feminine fida, masculine plural fidos, feminine plural fidas)
* faithful, loyal
    Synonyms: fiel, leal

### Further reading

* “fido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10